In the recent years I see more and more games with umlauts used in their names. My experience is that few english speakers can pronounce them, so I feel puzzled why they are used in games names. Is it just the funny shape of the characters, or is there another reason?

And how to pronounce "Brütal Legend", "Ünembra" or "Isotröma (Tesseract 2)"? (the latter two are from the WIP forum)

ä -> (Umlaut, transcribed as 'ae') like 'e' in "ten", 'a' in "band"ö -> (Umlaut, transcribed as 'oe') like 'i' in "Sir"ü -> (Umlaut, transcribed as 'ue') like 'y' in 'Tyrell'

a -> like 'u' in "cup", 'a' in "target"e -> like 'e' in "ten", 'a' in "bake"i -> like 'i' in "bingo"o -> like 'oo' in "door", like 'o' in "top"u -> like 'ou' in "you"y -> same as 'ü', but also consonant "j" in words of foreign origin ("Yacht")

In the recent years I see more and more games with umlauts used in their names. My experience is that few english speakers can pronounce them, so I feel puzzled why they are used in games names. Is it just the funny shape of the characters, or is there another reason?

And how to pronounce "Brütal Legend", "Ünembra" or "Isotröma (Tesseract 2)"? (the latter two are from the WIP forum)

I guess because its in their native languane, its normal to use umlaüts and they expect its also to be normal for other languanes?

Several languages use diaeresis over the letter U to show that the letter is pronounced in its regular way, without dropping out, building diphthongs with neighbours etc.

In Spanish it is used to distinguish between "gue"/"güe" and "gui"/"güi": antigüedad (antiquity), pingüino (penguin). This is also the case for the Nicaraguan demonym, Nicaragüense. Similarly in Catalan language,

It is quite hilarious sometimes when they try to make names look more interesting that way. In Sweden, we also have Å (a circle above an 'a') which sounds like 'au' in 'augmented'.In the stargate SG1 series, they added a circle above the 'a' in 'gate' which make the title sound like some funny dialect in Sweden (östgötska).

So, watch out for making your names sound really strange in other languages, even if it is just a decoration

java-gaming.org is not responsible for the content posted by its members, including references to external websites,
and other references that may or may not have a relation with our primarily
gaming and game production oriented community.
inquiries and complaints can be sent via email to the info‑account of the
company managing the website of java‑gaming.org